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entomology on YouTube

Jun 02 2009, 12:43:18 AM EDT in category [fun] by ardeans

The Entomological Society of America announced a YouTube entomology video contest today. The rules and theme seem fairly straightforward:
  1. entries should be less than 2 minutes long
  2. entries should fit one of four categories:
    • Discovery (research-based)
    • Instruction (teaching-based)
    • Outreach (extension-based)
    • Open category (anything goes, for the uber-creative entomologist)
  3. entries will be displayed on the ESA YouTube Channel (available somewhere at entsoc.org
  4. email your videos to rlevine@entsoc.org. If files are too large to email, write for instructions on alternative ways to send videos. [why not upload the vids and add them to the ESA group?]
Sounds cool! I think this contest would definitely help the current array of "entomology videos" on YouTube. They're not terrible, they're just not all that interesting (to me, anyway). Searching for insects is a bit more fruitful. My current favorite stars a native North Carolina, insect-devouring plant (Dionaea muscipula (Droseraceae) - the venus fly trap, of course):


One minor quibble - right around 00:38-00:45 there is reference to the "beetle's struggles." I'm pretty sure that hopeless insect is a pentatomoid bug (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) and not a beetle.

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